nnSoftBank Group‘s Japanese telecom unit selected Nokia and Ericsson as vendors for the rollout of its 5G wireless network, excluding...

nSoftBank Vision Fund led a US$200 million investment round for Indian online grocery startup Grofers, pushing the startup’s valuation to...

SoftBank Group has become the latest high-profile technology business to drop out of an investment conference in Saudi Arabia, following...

Electrify, a Singapore-headquartered technology startup, has received strategic investment from the Tepco Frontier Partners, a subsidiary of Japan’s largest utility...

Salesforce Ventures – the corporate investment arm of customer relationship management platform Salesforce – has introduced a new US$100 million...

nIndian hotel management firm Oyo has entered into a joint venture with Yahoo for an apartment rental service in Japan. Oyo...

n Japanese ecommerce startup Mercari, which went public last year with great fanfare, booked a quarterly loss of 1.1 billion...

Line Pay announced today plans to introduce in Japan the Line Pay co-branded credit card in partnership with Visa. The...

n Line Corporation  has announced plans to launch five new decentralized apps (dApps) in the following service categories: prediction, Q&A,...

nMessaging platform Line and online marketplace Mercari are joining forces on mobile payments as Japan’s internet companies race to dominate...